Prove it to me

HF21 New Steem = more SP spent voting good posts?

Prove it to me. For over a year I have been volunteering my time with no payment toward an open community for curators (@c-squared / @c-cubed). I co-founded C-Squared (C²) with noted Steem ne'er-do-wells @markangeltrueman, @randomwanderings & @justineh (@llfarms for you old school types who have been living under a rock for past 6 months), and have helped run it with the other co-founders and an ever-changing cadre of active volunteer administrators first headlined by @hiddenblade and @veryspider (who is still the reigning and undisputed art curator champion of the world not to mention spider par excellence keeping me from the #1 server ranking at C-Squared Discord).

More about C-Squared after the jump. The PROVE IT TO ME part is simple. Follow the c-squared vote trail(s) available at steemauto.com (none of these trails allow self promotion for the initial curation - smell the proof of brain):

• @c-squared (general community curation & community witness account - resteems all C-Squared upvotes. Between ~50-100 votes a day at variable VP ~10-20%. Predominately English language with some non-English curation, in order of frequency from most to least votes: Spanish, Turkish, Italian with much less frequent Myanmar, Filipino and Indonesian curation. Possibly the largest curation effort on Steem blockchain by number of curators and certainly one of the most diverse).
• @c-cubed (second layer of curation, c-squared "featured posts" voted on by c-squared administrators for extra vote with @c-cubed account. ~10 votes a day at 100% VP. Publishes an automated once-daily post summarizing featured posts).
• @c-squared-pal (dedicated #palnet tribe vote trail following the @c-squared vote on posts using #palnet tag, currently ~35%-50% VP votes).
• @c-squared-ccc (dedicated #creativecoin tribe vote trail following the @c-squared vote on posts using #creativecoin tag, currently ~35%-50% VP votes)

Not sure if you want to follow a "curation guild"?

C-squared may surprise you. IMHO this is the closest thing to actual "proof of brain" crowdsourced curation on the platform, with no attempts to define "exceptional content" or police particular topics and instead a focus on upvoting real posts by real people recommended by other real people.

C-Squared invites everyone to join the Discord and request the curator role.

• The curation "guidelines" can be boiled down to no self promotion in the curation channels, and check for spam/plagiarism. Currently 312 curators.
• We tell curators: If you find a post that deserves more love, bring it here.
• C-Squared has left it to curator's best discretion what kind of posts to bring in.
• The most active curators who become valued contributors to c-squared curation (as nominated/voted by administrators) are given the "voter" role and can upvote posts brought in by other curators (voters are still not allowed to upvote posts they themselves bring in). Currently 49 voters.
• C-Squared does not attempt to define specific guidelines for voters to follow, instead leaving it to voter's best discretion whether to upvote a post or not (with the instruction that unless the reason for not voting is spam/plagiarism, to not give negative feedback and instead just leave the post for consideration by other voters).
• The most active voters who continue steady contribution to c-squared are given administrator role upon nomination and vote of other administrators. Currently 9 administrators. Administrators can upvote posts they curate to keep the server moving but still must adhere to the no self-promotion rule.

No curator or administrator at c-squared receives payment for time volunteered.

But c-squared doesn't curate the kind of content I like!

OK - you sound like a potential curator! Please join the Discord, request curator role, and start bringing in the good posts in areas that c-squared curators are currently neglecting. There are no hoops to jump through. There are no complicated guidelines to adhere to. There is nothing stopping you from diversifying c-squared curation even more than it is now :) That is what we mean by c-squared is an open community for curators.

EVERYONE should be a curator on the Steem blockchain

That is what "proof of brain" means... or is supposed to mean :) Come join us where that is the reality.

Prove it to me

@c-squared is a community witness

Another easy way to support the c-squared curation effort is to vote for the @c-squared community witness. Witness earnings in excess of server costs are powered up and/or used to fund contest prize pools.

• Click here to vote for the @c-squared witness
• Click here for witness specs and more on community activities.

• #palnet and #creativecoin tags used here because of dedicated c-squared curation accounts @c-squared-pal & @c-squared-ccc. If usage of #creativecoin tag here is incorrect please let me know. @c-squared nor @c-squared-ccc posts anything at all using the #creativecoin tag, instead only upvoting content. Adding an original unpublished alien art piece below for good measure :) All hail the alien overlord.